I have decided to join the blogging craze. I am looking forward to taking a moment to find out a little more about the plants I have been photographing. I hope to explore all aspects of plants, flowers, trees and other garden related topics. Sorry about having to watermark the photos but there are a lot of people using them without permission.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Pink Elf Hydrangea and Bubblegum Petunias

After seeing this Hydrangea at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden and posting about it here I decided to try a couple in the new garden we installed last year. It made it through the winter and is now in full bloom. There are a couple of things I like about ‘Pia’ including its small stature and flower color. The garden is full of blue Hydrangea so it a nice contrast to have a few pink ones. They are planted in front of some blue ‘Endless Summer’ Hydrangeas and they look good together.

Hybrid PetuniaPetunia 'Supertunia Vista Bubblegum'(peh-TEWN-ya)

A lot of our Petunias got either too wet or eaten by the slugs this year. However, this variety has been outstanding. It has just been a carpet of color and is vigorously spreading. I wished I had just used these instead of some of the other types of Petunias. Proven Winners introduced this Petunia in 2005 and I have the feeling it is going to be around a long time. The other Supertunias have been doing okay but not like ‘Bubblegum’.

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Most excellent. I like the color of that hydrangea, and I am going go get that supertunia if it's the last thing I do. The slugs this year left me thinking my regular dudes were optical illusions. Now I know.

Lovely petunias.I have never had petunias in my yard, but this spring I deseded to buy 3 palts. In Finland the weather is often rainy and I thinked, it's not good for theses flowers, but I was wrong.Even today my petuniuas are goodloking under the rain.Hope, you understand my bad english...hehehThank you for your nice comment in my blog.